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Varicosity

Definition of Varicosity

What does Varicosity mean?

noun

  1. varix or varicose condition in which a vein is swollen and tortuous

Alternative definition

noun

  1. an enlarged vessel, particularly a blood vessel
  2. varicose vein

Miscellanea

varicosity is a gene ontology group, gene group.

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Google previewPan Vascular Medicine (2002)

Integrated Clinical Management by Peter Lanzer, Eric J. Topol

The common starting point for any varicosity is a pressure and volume overload on one segment of an epifascial vein located distal to an incompetent valve at a point where the epifascial venous system drains into the deep system. Thus, if the ...

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Google previewOptic Nerve in Glaucoma (1995)

by Stephen M. Drance, Douglas R. Anderson

A noradrenergic varicosity is the site of release of the neurotransmitter nore- pinephrine. Two cotransmitters are ATP and neuropeptide Y, but they are not the only ones. In many varicosities that release norepinephrine as a transmitter, one ...

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Google previewThe New Sydenham society's Lexicon of medicine and the allied sciences (1893)

(Based on Mayne's Lexicon) by New Sydenham Society, Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick

Varicosity of the reins of the broad ligament. Varicocelectomy. (L. varix, rarix ; Or. кт'Дч,

A varicosity at the narel. Var'lcorn, (L. varita, various; corn», horn.)...

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Google previewEncyclopedia of Molecular Mechanisms of Diseases (2009)

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Varicosity ▷Varicose Veins Variegate Porphyria ▷Porphyria, Variegate Vascular Cognitive Impairment ▷Dementia, Vascular Vascular Dementia ▷Dementia, Vascular Vascular Ectasia of the Colon ▷Angiodysplasia of the ...

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Google previewEncyclopaedia medica (1902)

by Chalmers Watson

Distinct varicosity of the veins around the cardiac orifice may occur at the junction of the coronary and oesophageal vessels — gastric haemorrhoids ; the non- persistence, however, of such vascular dilatations after death is not to be taken as ...

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Google previewThe American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Ophthalmology (1921)

by Casey Albert Wood

VARICOSITY or was RETINA. Dilation of the retinal vessels has been considered under a number of captions in ...

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Google previewEncyclopedia of Movement Disorders (2010)

Tyr TH Dopa DA AAAD Mobile pool Ca++ Synaptic pool DAT DA Varicosity DA DA DA DA DA DA Astrocyte Auto- receptor COMT MAOB MAOB Figure 2 Depiction of the fates of dopamine (DA) as it is synthesized and distributed throughout the ...

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Google previewThe Encyclopedia of Women's Health (2009)

by Christine Ammer

varicose vein Also varicosity. A permanent bulging or swelling in a vein, most commonly in one or more outer veins that run down the leg just under the skin. It can affect both men and women, but in 434 varicose vein America 1 in 5 ...

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Google previewEncyclopaedia metropolitana (1845)

or Universal dictionary of knowledge ... comprising the twofoldadvantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose

Treviranus, Valentin, and others deny the varicosity of the tubes, even under pressure, whilst the brain continues perfectly fresh ; but, admitting the tendency to this appearance in the primitive canals of this division of the nervous centres, ...

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Google previewEncyclopaedia Metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, on an original plan: comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings (1845)

Edited by Edw. Smedley, Hugh Jam. Rose, and H. John Rose. (Text: voll. XXVI. Plates: voll. III. Index by Edw Smedley

Treviranus, Valentin, and others deny the varicosity of the tubes, even under pressure, whilst the brain continues perfectly fresh ; but, admitting the tendency to this appearance in the primitive canals of this division of the nervous centres, ...

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